Wednesday, July 30, 2008

In light of the recent “moderate” shake in Southern Cal, the NBC Nightly News looked back at some major earthquakes that have hit the area, and ahead to the Big One.

Recent quakes include the 1994 Northridge quake that killed 60 and the 1989 Bay Area shaker that killed 63. According to the report, “Earthquake scientists say there’s a 99 percent chance that another quake at least as big as those will strike California in the next thirty years.” The likely target: Southern California.

And it’s not going to be pretty.

“Certainly I’m not looking forward to the day when that major fault goes. Hopefully I’ll already be dead,” said CalTech Geophysicist Thomas Heaton.

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I started pound360 to channel my obsession with vitamins, running and the five senses. Eventually, I got bored focusing on all that stuff, so I came back from a one month hiatus in May of 2007 (one year after launching Pound360) and broadened my mumblings here to include all science.